Packaging of Nagios

[Michael Thomas]

Roy-Magne Mo wrote:
> Mike McGrath skreiv:
>> On Fri, 27 Jun 2008, Dan Horák wrote:
>>
>>> Roy-Magne Mo píše v Pá 27. 06. 2008 v 18:22 +0200:
>>>> Matthew Jurgens skreiv:
>>>>> I am waiting for the release of the fedora Nagios v3 package and was
>>>>>
>>>>> wondering if I could get involved to help speed up the process?
>>>> I've packaged Nagios 3 for my self and contacted Shawn Starr and asked
>>>> if he was interested in the updates to the existing package. He replied
>>>> that it wasn't interesting before the nagios 2 line was killed off.
>>>>
>>>> So, it seems like fedora has been debianized ;)
>>>>
>>> But you can submit a package called nagios3 and when there will be no
>>> conflicts with nagios then Fedora will have both.
>>>
>>>
>>
>> It amuses me that, for whatever reason, none of you have bothered to
>> contact me about it and instead went to a list that already gets way to
>> much traffic.  My email address is: mmcgrath at fedoraproject.org
>>
>> If you're interested in getting nagios 3 ready and into Fedora, I could
>> certainly use help with that.
> 
> Hi,
> I will register a bugzilla in a couple of hours with a upgrade request. 
> The changes required to upgrade to Nagios 3 isn't all that big spec 
> wise. There are some changes to the config format, so people should be 
> aware when upgrading.

Does/will Nagios3 provide some config file migration tool to ease the 
pain for folks who want to migrate from v2 to v3?  Or are the changes 
simple enough to perform by hand, even for large Nagios installations?

--Wart